The ban of the Bori; demons and demon-dancing in West and North Africa (1914)
Tremearne, A. J. N. (Arthur John Newman), 1877-1915 · London, Heath, Cranton & Ouseley Ltd · leaf 352
it.O great One. Pride is enough for you,Great Camel. The head of a lizard [is of no use] except as a charm. The reference to the head of a lizard is that charms aresometimes made by writing a sentence on a piece of paper,placing it in the dried head of a lizard, and wrapping thewhole in leather,… … BORI—THE MOHAMMEDAN SPIRITS 305 inhabitants, botli male and female, are said to havebelonged to the bori at one time. Another song, not sopolite, is : He gives women a disease which cannot be cured,He afflicts them with worms which kill men,He has a two-storeyed house, a chiefs income.He preens…
